Fallguy

The film 'Fallguy' (also known as 'Fall Guy'), directed by Don Henderson and produced by Laminare Productions, was released in 1962. Under the US Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first copyright term to remain protected. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, the University of Pennsylvania's Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) online database, and the Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1940-1959/1960-1969) indicates that no renewal was ever filed for this title. While the film was registered for its initial term (Registration No. LP23180, dated June 14, 1962), the failure to renew in 1989 or 1990 caused the work to lapse into the public domain. Because it was published before 1964, it did not benefit from the automatic renewal provision of the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992. The film is widely recognized in the industry as public domain and is frequently found in PD-specific collections from distributors like Alpha Video and Sinister Cinema.